If you can’t answer that question without pointing the conversation to some part of you as the Development Manager of a release that is late then here is the message you are projecting. It’s not us, it’s them (despite being on the same team).We didn’t screw up, everyone else did.This is there problem, not ours.It’s out of my hands. You might not want to be saying that, but you are. If you are part of…
And it’s going to change. In ways, you didn’t see coming. When it does change you have two options; Keep playing the old game and hope things revert back to the way they were.Start learning the new game so you can better understand how it works and what you need to do. The former will work in the short term and keep you afloat for a while until you reach a point where the game…
Everyone did. But not everyone wanted to speak. And not everyone wanted to hear the bad news. And not everyone wanted to discuss the what-if scenarios. So when the client found out, the inevitable question was Who knew? Which then sparked the recycling of the above dialogue.
Easily, the most asked question in software. The answer, not as easy to come by and is different for every company and team out there. It can range from the dev team to product management to support to sales to someone being sick to code not working to platform problems to project issues to anything and anything and anything. That was a very long rambling sentence, but you get the idea, it’s not easy to…
One of the most difficult tasks of a software manager is to take stock of their backlog. What needs to be pruned? What needs more data? What needs to be turfed? What is valuable? What is duplicated and needs to be escalated? An organized team has a decent backlog. You don’t need to be quoting ticket numbers and requests, but when you open it, it’s organized, it’s clear. The value proposition of what is in…